1970 Copa Libertadores

The 1970 Copa Libertadores de América was the 11th edition of CONMEBOL's top Association football club tournament. Estudiantes de La Plata successfully defended their title for the second straight year by defeating Peñarol in the finals. Teams from Brazil did not participate in this year's tournament due to CBF still disagreeing with the format.^[1]

Copa Libertadores de América

Tournament details
Dates	February 11 - May 14
Teams	19 (from 9 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	Estudiantes (LP) (3rd title)
Runners-up	Peñarol
Tournament statistics
Matches played	88
Goals scored	253 (2.88 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Francisco Bertocchi (9 goals)
← 1969 1971 →

Qualified teams

Country	Team	Qualification method
CONMEBOL 1 berth	Estudiantes (LP)	1969 Copa Libertadores winners
Argentina 2 berths	Boca Juniors	1969 Primera División champion
	River Plate	1969 Primera División runner-up
Bolivia 2 berths	Universitario de La Paz	1969 Primera División champion
	Bolívar	1969 Primera División runner-up
Brazil 2 berths	(None) [1]	–
Chile 2 berths	Universidad de Chile	1969 Primera División champion
	Rangers	1969 Primera División runner-up
Colombia 2 berths	Deportivo Cali	1969 Campeonato Profesional champion
	América de Cali	1969 Campeonato Profesional runner-up
Ecuador 2 berths	LDU Quito	1969 Campeonato Ecuatoriano Serie A champion
	América de Quito	1969 Campeonato Ecuatoriano Serie A runner-up
Paraguay 2 berths	Guaraní	1969 Primera División champion
	Olimpia	1969 Primera División runner-up
Peru 2 berths	Universitario	1969 Descentralizado champion
	Defensor Arica	1969 Descentralizado runner-up
Uruguay 2 berths	Nacional	1969 Primera División champion
	Peñarol	1969 Primera División runner-up
Venezuela 2 berths	Deportivo Galicia	1969 Primera División champion
	Valencia	1969 Primera División runner-up

Draw

The champions and runners-up of each football association were drawn into the same group along with another football association's participating teams. Three clubs from Argentina competed as Estudiantes (LP) were the champions of the 1969 Copa Libertadores. They entered the tournament in the semifinals.

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4
Argentina Bolivia	Uruguay Venezuela	Colombia Chile Paraguay	Ecuador Peru

Group Stage

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BOC	RIV	BOL	UNI
1	Boca Juniors	6	5	1	0	14	4	+10	11	Qualified to the Second phase			2–1	2–0	4–0
2	River Plate	6	3	1	2	15	6	+9	7			1–3		1–0	9–0
3	Bolívar	6	1	2	3	7	9	−2	4			2–3	1–1		2–0
4	Universitario de La Paz	6	0	2	4	2	19	−17	2			0–0	0–2	2–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		NAC	PEÑ	VAL	GAL
1	Nacional	6	4	2	0	13	3	+10	10	Qualified to the Second phase			1–1	1–0	2–0
2	Peñarol	6	3	3	0	17	4	+13	9			0–0		11–2	4–1
3	Valencia	6	2	1	3	9	18	−9	5			2–5	0–0		3–1
4	Deportivo Galicia	6	0	0	6	2	16	−14	0			0–4	0–1	0–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		GUA	UCH	OLI	CAL	AME	RAN
1	Guaraní	10	5	5	0	12	4	+8	15	Qualified to the Second phase			1–0	1–0	1–1	4–1	2–0
2	Universidad de Chile	10	5	3	2	19	11	+8	13			0–0		2–1	3–1	2–1	2–1
3	Olimpia	10	4	4	2	19	11	+8	12			0–0	1–1		5–1	1–0	5–1
4	Deportivo Cali	10	5	2	3	18	16	+2	12			0–0	2–0	0–1		4–2	3–2
5	América de Cali	10	1	3	6	12	22	−10	5			2–2	2–2	1–1	2–4		1–0
6	Rangers	10	1	1	8	11	27	−16	3			0–1	1–7	4–4	0–2	2–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		UNI	LDU	DEF	CDA
1	Universitario	6	4	1	1	11	4	+7	9	Qualified to the Second Phase			2–0	2–1	3–0
2	LDU Quito	6	3	1	2	10	6	+4	7			2–0		1–2	4–1
3	Defensor Arica	6	1	3	2	5	6	−1	5			1–1	0–0		0–1
4	América de Quito	6	1	1	4	4	14	−10	3			0–3	1–3	1–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Second phase

From this phase onwards, the team that advanced from groups that had two teams (including the winner of the finals) had to decided by points (two for a win, one for a draw). If after two games, no one team had the most points, a single-game playoff was to be played on neutral grounds to determine who advanced (or wins as is the case for the finals). If the playoff game ended in a draw, goal difference will be used a tie-breaker.

Zone 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RIV	BOC	UNI
1	River Plate	4	3	1	0	9	5	+4	7	Qualified to the Third phase			1–0	5–3
2	Boca Juniors	4	2	1	1	5	3	+2	5			1–1		1–0
3	Universitario	4	0	0	4	5	11	−6	0			1–2	1–3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

April 11, 1970

Universitario	1 – 3	Boca Juniors

Lima, Peru

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April 14, 1970

Universitario	1 – 2	River Plate

Lima, Peru

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April 16, 1970

River Plate	1 – 0	Boca Juniors

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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April 22, 1970

Boca Juniors	1 – 0	Universitario

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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April 25, 1970

River Plate	5 – 3	Universitario

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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April 30, 1970

Boca Juniors	1 – 1	River Plate

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Zone 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PEÑ	GUA	LDU
1	Peñarol	4	3	0	1	6	4	+2	6	Qualified to the Third Phase			1–0	2–1
2	Guaraní	4	1	1	2	3	3	0	3			2–0		1–1
3	LDU Quito	4	1	1	2	4	6	−2	3			1–3	1–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

April 12, 1970

LDU Quito	1 – 3	Peñarol

Quito, Ecuador

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April 19, 1970

Guaraní	2 – 0	Peñarol

Asunción, Paraguay

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April 22, 1970

LDU Quito	1 – 0	Guaraní

Quito, Ecuador

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April 26, 1970

Peñarol	1 – 0	Guaraní

Montevideo, Uruguay

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April 29, 1970

Guaraní	1 – 1	LDU Quito

Asunción, Paraguay

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May 2, 1970

Peñarol	2 – 1	LDU Quito

Montevideo, Uruguay

Zone 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		UCH	NAC
1	Universidad de Chile	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1	2	Qualified to the Third Phase			3–0
2	Nacional	2	1	0	1	2	3	−1	2			2–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

April 15, 1970

Universidad de Chile	3 – 0	Nacional

Santiago, Chile

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April 25, 1970

Nacional	2 – 0	Universidad de Chile

Montevideo, Uruguay

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April 28, 1970

Universidad de Chile	2 – 1	Nacional

Porto Alegre, Brazil

Third phase

Semi-final A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PEÑ	UCH
1	Peñarol	2	1	0	1	2	1	+1	2	Qualified to the Finals			2–0
2	Universidad de Chile	2	1	0	1	1	2	−1	2			1–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

May 8, 1970

Universidad de Chile	1 – 0	Peñarol

Santiago, Chile

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May 12, 1970

Peñarol	2 – 0	Universidad de Chile

Montevideo, Uruguay

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May 14, 1970

Peñarol	2 – 2	Universidad de Chile

Avellaneda, Argentina

Semi-final B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		EST	RIV
1	Estudiantes (LP)	2	2	0	0	4	1	+3	4	Qualified to the Finals			3–1
2	River Plate	2	0	0	2	1	4	−3	0			0–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

May 7, 1970

River Plate	0 – 1	Estudiantes (LP)

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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May 5, 1970

Estudiantes (LP)	3 – 1	River Plate

La Plata, Argentina

Finals

Main article: 1970 Copa Libertadores Finals

May 21, 1970

Estudiantes (LP)	1 – 0	Peñarol

La Plata, Argentina

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May 27, 1970

Peñarol	0 – 0	Estudiantes

Montevideo, Uruguay

Champion

Copa Libertadores de América 1970 Champions
Estudiantes (LP) Third Title